trippyhop

I just have to say that Sasha won the night for me with her Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula look.

Agree wholeheartedly with you about Connie Britton looking completely different than Faye. But I think she's such a good actress that hopefully it'll be an intelligent reading of the character. But what's weirder - Cuba's casting or John Travolta? A review in the Hollywood Reporter said that Travolta's performance is so modulated and mannered that it veers into Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest kabuki realm. I don't know I'd go that far, but Travolta is a strange casting choice for sure.

I think Sarah Paulson is an inspired choice to play Marcia Clark. Not 100% in the looks department, but she gives off the competent but overwhelmed drive that I get from rewatching old clips of Clark in the trial. Like a steely intelligence that never wavered, even as the case collapsed around her into hysterics and circus. I'm anxious to see more of Blair, Britton and Brewster, mostly because Kris and Faye can veer off straight into camp (as those famewhores in real life do), and I've never been a big Jordana Brewster fan and Denise's testimony is some of to the most heart wrenching stuff in trying to steer the narrative back to where it should have been - an abusive husband who probably was murderous to his ex wife. I think Britton is a great actress, but that area of the trial is so bizarre and taps into RM's love of campy socialites (thinking of Nip/Tuck here) that it could completely collapse if it's not modulated correctly.

GH, enjoy! It's my favorite 30 for 30 doc. It's an editing marvel and is structured without narration or talking heads, so it feels like watching a TV whose channels are being flipped without your control. Plus, after last night's episode, it's a good side by side comparison between what really happened versus the dramatization (stuff inside the Bronco notwithstanding). A lot of scenes from the episode are in the doc (RK reading the note, Gil Garcetti's plea to the community, the cheers from the 405, etc).

Whoops. Sorry for the double post, guys. Dumb phone, dumb trippyhop. In response to GH's question, I think the 30 for 30 that Marcia Clark referred to isn't coming out until this summer. However, the excellent 30 for 30 doc, "June 17, 1994," is available on Netflix. It shows how all these insane things in sports were happening that day (Arnold Palmer's final game, the NY Rangers ticker tape parade, Game 5 (I think) of the NBA Finals, the opening ceremony if the World Cup and Ken Griffey Jr getting to 30 home runs before June 30) and were interrupted by the Bronco chase.

Crim, I completely agree that Cate Blanchett is a sublime actress and it does take immense talent, but I just think that Carol with Therese was a bit thin. Regardless, Cate and Rooney had fantastic chemistry.

I just watched this the other night and really liked it. It didn't live up to the hype for me, but I thought it was still a good, not great, film. Rooney Mara as Therese was fantastic and I hope she wins whichever Oscar she's nominated for. Cate Blanchett, however, was just okay. I think it was tricky for her, however, because since I felt that Therese was the lead of the film, whenever Carol was seen from Therese's point of view, Carol was always this mysterious enigmatic alluring person, so there wasn't much to play. She was good in her scenes without Therese, such as with Harge (Kyle Chandler is getting no love for his role, but he should). However, I did get the flutters from the film because they did a framing device from "Brief Encounter" (one of my favs) that totally gets me every fucking time, so good on Haynes for giving the Carol/Therese romance some extra cinematic oomph.

I saw this over the weekend in glorious 70mm. Seeing it like that was wonderful - the film itself is gorgeous. The cinematography, the costuming, the sets and, especially, the score were beautiful, so it was great to see a film in that format. The film, however, I did not enjoy. I'm a QT fan usually ("Jackie Brown" is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I love "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill"), but this is the first film I can't defend. I'm not one to get offended or up in arms over offensive, racist or sexist humor, but I was incredibly uncomfortable watching this film. I guess it's because I don't think of QT of being particularly racist and definitely not a misogynist, but if I didn't know anything else of his canon and just saw this, I'd think he was a horrible person. The cast was great - particularly Jennifer Jason Leigh - but this left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and I'm incredibly disappointed that it did. When can QT stop the ridiculous exploitation and go back to his interesting 90s self? I'm sure I'm just in the minority since critics everywhere are hailing this as a masterpiece. Which makes me wonder since it's all n-word, n-word, n-word, tramp, whore, bitch. I don't know. Anyone else?

Well, our nightmare is over. TNT has cancelled the show.

Well, to be fair, the "Nerd Herd" moniker came from Howie's obsession with Star Wars (Jedi Janie, etc), and "nerd herder" is an insult that Princess Leia makes to Han Solo in "Empire Strikes Back." So, I don't think it was a high school "you're such a nerd!" insult. Because, really, aside from Maggie, who in The Friendsheep really seemed like a nerdy thinker? None of them.

Well, if that is the case, then I feel silly. But it was written as "then all of a sudden, Zach comes out to the BY." Which, hey, could be read several ways.

I missed it too. The only thing I found on Jokers was a reference to Zach coming out to everyone in the backyard around 3:22am this morning. But there have been no other references to this in terms of updates or comments. So who knows. But I'm also in the dark about this and am totally curious.